Humphrey Bogart, named the greatest male star of all time by the American Film Institute, starred in 75 films and was known as Bogie. He was born in New York City in 1899 and attended prestigious schools before being expelled. He was married four times and had memorable roles in films such as The Maltese Falcon and Casablanca. Bogart died of cancer in 1957.
Humphrey Bogart is an American actor who was named the greatest male star of all time by the American Film Institute in 1999. He has starred in 75 feature films and is known affectionately by fans as Bogie, the name by which actor Spencer Tracy he first called it in 1930. Some of his most memorable films are Key Largo, The African Queen, The Caine Mutiny, The Maltese Falcon and Casablanca.
Humphrey DeForest Bogart was born on December 25, 1899 in New York City, New York to Belmont and Maud Bogart. Some sources list January 23 as Bogart’s actual birth date and this could be true if the Christmas birth date was used for image purposes in the acting biography of him as some people claim. Bogart’s father was a surgeon, his mother was a commercial artist, and Humphrey Bogart was the eldest of three children. As a child, his artist mother drew pictures of him that were used in a Mellins baby food advertising campaign.
Humphrey Bogart attended Christian Musler Academy School in New York and then Phillips Academy in Massachusetts. Phillips was a prestigious school and the details of why Humphrey Bogart was expelled vary, but both poor grades and disobedience of school rules were said to be reasons. Bogart joined the Naval Reserve and worked odd jobs. His first acting role was as a Japanese butler in a 1921 comedy in Brooklyn. Subsequently, he had small roles in 21 Broadway shows between 1922 and 1935.
Humphrey Bogart was married four times and his first marriage, to Helen Menken, lasted only a year although they remained friends. In 1928, Bogart married Mary Philips, but she was a Broadway actress and refused to move to Hollywood when Bogie started making films there. In 1938, Humphrey Bogart married Mayo Methot and she had a serious drinking problem. When she was drunk, she would throw things at Bogie and Bogie would sometimes throw the objects back, which prompted the press to call them “Battling Bogarts.” Humphrey Bogart’s fourth marriage was to actress Lauren Bacall and they were known as “Bogie and Bacall”.
Bogie made B movies in the 1920s and 1930s in Hollywood for Warner Brothers. In the beginning, all the roles of him were the tough criminal that Bogart despised playing, but he did it anyway because he really wanted to be an actor. Humphrey Bogart often wore his suits in these films because he thought the suits in the Warner Brothers wardrobe looked too cheap. Edward G. Robinson and James Cagney were Warner’s lead actors, while the most Bogart got was the second lead, usually the criminal shot by one of the lead characters.
Things changed when Warner Brothers obtained the screen rights to the Broadway show, The Petrified Forest. Humphrey Bogart’s friend Leslie Howard had a lead role in the play, and Warner Brothers wanted Edward G. Robinson to co-star with Howard in the film version of The Petrified Forest. Howard fought hard and convinced Warner Brothers to cast Humphrey Bogart as another lead and Bogart was so grateful that he named his daughter Leslie Howard Bogart. Bogart had many memorable starring roles after that, such as private detective Sam Spade in 1941’s The Maltese Falcon, nightclub owner/chess player Rick Blaine in 1942’s Casablanca, and his Academy Award winner Charlie Alnutt in The African Queen of 1951. Humphrey Bogard died of cancer of the esophagus on January 14, 1957.
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